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How do people learn? We assess, in a model-free manner, subjectsʼ belief dynamics in a two-armed bandit learning … unsuccessful choices, than “update up” following successful choices. The profits from following the estimated learning and decision …-rational Bayesian learning model, but comparable to the profits from alternative non-Bayesian learning models, including reinforcement …
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Rule learning posits that decision makers, rather than choosing over actions, choose over behavioral rules with …. Past works on rule learning have shown that when playing a single game over a number of rounds, players can learn to form … sophisticated beliefs about others. Here we are interested in learning that occurs between games where the set of actions is not …
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learning. In repeat-choice situations, such learning brings value. If probabilities appear favorable (unfavorable), a choice … can be repeated (avoided). In a series of experiments involving bets on the colors of poker chips drawn from bags …, decision makers often prove to be blind to the learning opportunities offered by uncertain probabilities. They forgo …
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We present a striking example of the deconstruction and reconstruction of an anomaly. In line with previous experiments …
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The rapid growth of online retail in the last decade has led to widespread use of consumer-generated ratings. This paper theoretically and experimentally identifies influences that drive consumers to rate products and examines how those factors can create distortions in product ratings. By...
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strategic uncertainty for late movers). The experiments that we conduct to test these theoretical results show that the learning … coordination: a learning effect (early decisions reveal information) and a complementarity effect (early decisions eliminate …
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We investigate gender differences and menstrual cycle effects in first-price and second-price sealed-bid auctions with independent private values in a laboratory setting. We find that women bid significantly higher and earn significantly less than men do in the first-price auction, while we find...
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We experimentally investigate the fundamental element of the level-k model of reasoning, the level-0 actions and beliefs. We use data from a novel experimental design that allows us to obtain incentivised written accounts of individuals' reasoning. In particular, these accounts allow to infer...
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An apology is a strong and cheap device to restore social or economic relationships that have been disturbed. In a laboratory experiment in which apologies emerge endogenously, we find that harmdoers use apologies in particular if they fear punishment and if their intentions cannot be easily...
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From the regulation of sports to lawmaking in parliament, in many situations one group of people (“agents”) make decisions that affect the payoffs of others (“principals”) who may offer action-contingent transfers in order to sway the agents' decisions. Prat and Rustichini (2003)...
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